The City Council is scheduled to meet Tuesday to consider a no confidence vote in the mayor, who said last week he would not resign. Some councilors say it’s unclear if they have the authority to remove Correia from office.

Fall River is a working-class city of about 87,000 residents in southeastern Massachusetts, some 55 miles from Boston. It is perhaps most famous for Lizzie Borden, who was accused but later acquitted of killing her father and stepmother with an ax in 1892.